Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Cristopher Burge who runs the website Cloud Storage Advice , has a great rundown on how cloud computing has revolutionized education: The concept of cloud computing saw its beginnings in the educational sector ever since the first open source websites saw the light of day. Cloud Computing in the Educational Sector.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is a podcast for all education trailblazers seeking the cutting edge of professional growth. As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. You’ll be glad you did.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

Key points: The COVID-19 pandemic facilitated the introduction of new learning technologies into the mainstream Educators and students were forced to adapt to new edtech tools, which now have a permanent place in today’s classrooms It goes without saying that the Covid-19 pandemic affected every aspect of our lives in one way or another.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In today’s classrooms, keeping children focused on the content they are studying is a big challenge. Hence, we bring you some of the most popular and result-oriented classroom technologies that can help you improve the learning outcomes of your class: Best Digital Learning Tools to Make Classrooms Interesting and Engaging.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa Mierow It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? To find out, we talked to Marissa Mierow, who leads Alexa Education at Amazon, delivering innovative experiences for both students and developers focused on education technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2023

educational institutions shared that data with third parties. These days the systems holding school data can seem like a bank vault with sophisticated locks but no back wall, says Michael King, a retired vice president and general manager of global education for IBM.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If hindsight is 20/20, what do we hope for educators in 2021? At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence asked more than 5,000 educators how they were feeling. Now, nine months later, educators are still grappling with those same emotions, leading to stress and burnout.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

COVID-19 has transformed the education technology landscape in ways few could have anticipated. Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

That MOOC space includes online learning platform and edtech “unicorn” Coursera, which went public last year , and edX, which lost its nonprofit status when it was bought by the for-profit company 2U last year. Gallagher isn’t convinced that Meta will move into education anytime soon. Udemy’s stock, for example, is down.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

But instead of a classroom, Wolochow now works on the Silicon Valley campus of a company that’s using technology to make learning more accessible to people throughout the world. I was an educator so I understand where they are coming from,” she said. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Much of that money will apparently go toward paying off debt and covering fees related to going public, though officials say they are also putting $1 million in a donation to “philanthropic initiatives to benefit K-12 educators.” Shares did rise nearly 3 percent in early trading, giving the software provider a valuation of about $3.6

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

Santa Barbara, CA — ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-home engagement platform for K12 education, has been named to the 2024 edition of the GSV 150: GSV’s annual list of the top 150 private companies transforming digital learning and workforce skills.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

I see four AI use and ethics trends set to disrupt classrooms and conference rooms. Education focused on deeper learning and understanding of this transformative technology will be critical to furthering the debate and ensuring positive progress that protects social good. Funding for AI literacy and public education will skyrocket.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 31, 2017

In my newest book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom (out soon), I’ve dedicated one of the missions to citizen science projects. Mark your calendars, because no student or educator should miss this historic event! Simulate an eclipse in the classroom by NASA.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In July, the company bought the for-profit University of Antelope Valley in California, saying it would incorporate it as a portal in the metaverse, part of the voguish effort to link the globe into “one big classroom.” education market still holds cache around the world. The interview was edited for brevity and clarity.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

Higher education can be considered a luxury for many people worldwide. Higher education in Denmark is free of charge and scholarships and student grants are very much available. In countries in this area, higher education is available to anyone — theoretically, at least. SPOCs help teachers implement the flipped classroom.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The education industry didn’t. School closures have forced people to not only rely more on digital tools in the short term, but also reimagine what education can be once it’s safe to return. COVID’s Immediate Aftermath As the pandemic shuttered schools, many educators found themselves turning to tools to support remote instruction.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. In some cases he decides to eventually take the whole thing, and Coursera waives the usual fee for him to get a certificate if he finishes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

A quarter of them signed up through regional MOOC providers such as XuetangX (initiated by Tsinghua University and the Ministry of Education in China) and Miríada X (a joint initiative of Telefónica Educación Digital and Banco Santander through Universia in Latin America). million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

Higher education can be considered a luxury for many people worldwide. Higher education in Denmark is free of charge and scholarships and student grants are very much available. In countries in this area, higher education is available to anyone — theoretically, at least. SPOCs help teachers implement the flipped classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

Digital alternatives at residential colleges and other new ways of delivering education have exploded since the pandemic forced schools to shut down in March 2020, forcing a reckoning in a sector already reeling from enrollment declines, rising tuition and unmanageable, often hidden student debt. Credit: Liz Willen for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. Narratives about the “factory model of education” and whatnot. I mean forgetting what happened five, ten years ago.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But in recent years a new type of online degree has emerged, born of partnerships between elite universities and the platforms that support MOOCs, such as Coursera, FutureLearn, and edX. Two years later, the University of Illinois and Coursera started a master’s program in business that it called an iMBA.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). The MOOC Semester could fix that.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Education & Teaching (50). University of California, San Diego via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Education, Mini-Course III: Accountability and National Standards. University of Oregon via Coursera. Early Childhood Education. Education in a Changing World.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Another point of contention: In an era of heightened tension about academic freedom and “controversial” courses, some instructors are loath to make it easier for their material to escape the classroom and possibly be used against them. If a classroom is being recorded, students need to know, according to Pendse.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Education is changing and we have to address these changes in order to adapt and choose the right path. There are some major shifts happening in the way perceive education and the mechanisms we use for teaching and learning. So what does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade? Why next decade?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. million students.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. Yasuko Kanno, chair of Boston University’s Language and Literacy Education department, agrees. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. EdSurge: I’ve heard folks at Coursera refer to your courses and microcredential programs as “products.” It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. Education has become relatively more attractive.” But how to make the most of the moment?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Online classroom management, technical knowledge, video conferencing, creating online presentations, designing instructional visuals, among several other practices, are all integral to the practice of teaching virtually. A bachelor’s degree in education or related fields is vital in today’s job market.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

When it comes to the business of education, the teenage years of this century are going out with a bang. And topping the charts is a story about educators marshalling forces against a telecoms giant. Over the following days, we’ll be sharing the top stories of the year in K-12 and higher education readers. Stay tuned!

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

EdSurge put that question to Engageli’s co-founder, Dan Avida, a venture capitalist who was an early board member of Coursera—the online course giant that his wife, Daphne Koller, co-founded. We're starting to work with a small number, at this point, of people doing corporate education. And we’re talking to continuing education people.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Many classroom doors have closed. While the pandemic has disrupted education much more than any Silicon Valley fad, it has also accelerated the kinds of technology adoption that the industry has long pined for. As people are forced to learn from home, some online educational services are in greater demand than ever.

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